Racial Tension
John Dok
Who has the rite to claim their own ethnicity? Is it a thing that is easily obtained and passed around? Your ethnicity defines you, in saying who you are, were you live, what you eat, and how you act. Mary Waters a sociology professor at Harvard University has totally different views on this topic. Her views on this topic are very stereotypical and in my opinion wrong.
Mary states that "White Americans of European ancestry can be described as having a great deal of choice in terms of their ethnic identities". She states that whites are able to either choose a specific ancestry, just to be white, or choose which European background they want to portray. Mary also says that European Americans have the choice not to choose an ethnic background because they are the majority of the population.
In Mary's opinion there are two ways of describing ethnic identity. The first way is symbolic ethnic identity, as she quotes" These symbolic identifications are......
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